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1990 Season Chat

Cost of Living 1990
How Much things cost in 1990
Yearly Inflation Rate USA5.39%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 2633
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.00%
Average Cost of new house $123,000.00
Average Income per year $28,960.00
Average Monthly Rent $465.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.34
Price for a new Isuzu Rodeo $12,4900.00
IBM PS1 Computer From $999.00 - $1,999.00
Technology

The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit revolutionizing astronomy.
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first web page is written
Microsoft Releases Windows 3.0
A 16 megabit chip is shown for the first time
The First Known Case of AIDS is traced back to 1959
The Space Probe Voyager launched in 1977 photographed the Solar System at a distance of 3.7 miles from the SUN
18 years after its launch the US Space Probe Pioneer reaches a distance of 46.5 billion miles beyond all planetary orbits
Depletion of the Ozone Layer is discovered above the North Pole
The First in-car Satellite Navigation System is sold by Pioneer

Popular Culture 1990
The Sci/Fi Channel on Cable TV starts transmitting
Twin Peaks premieres on ABC
The Milli Vanilli duo's producer reveals that the Grammy winning pop duo were lip synching in the songs on the album which gained them the award